Dreadnought

I miss Fractured Space this is kinda close, does somethings better and some worse, but I can't play fractured space so...

Disclaimer, I play this game because Fractured Space died.
The good:
-Matches don't take a long time to complete.
-Combat is simple but quite satisfying.
-Graphics for the most part.
The bad:
-"Micro-transactions" are gonna kill the game because they are too ridiculous.
-Its already happening.

Being perfectly honest, this game is fun. You will enjoy it either by yourself or with friends. Everything is really balanced in the beginning when you're playing recruit and veteran rank. (2 out of 3 ranks)
Yes the player base is quite a bit low sometimes and you will be matched with bots in a lot of games. You won't mind in the beginning, until it becomes a game of 'who can kill the most bots first wins'. These games are aggravating and not fun. But when you have all humans, deeply satisfying.
The huge problem with this game starts at legendary rank. Where after the culmination of all your efforts, you will now enter big boy territory. You feel like a hot shot with your tier 4 ship. And then you will be obliterated, over and over again. You will die in seconds without understanding what happened. You will experience this huge gap between your tier 4 noob equipment ship, and the tier 5 gods with all the right modules who crush you. The amount of loses (you will lose 90% of the time unless hard carried) required to even fully upgrade your tier 4 ship is in the hundreds. Not to mention when you FINALLY unlock a tier 5 ship and you need another hundreds of matches to fully upgrade the tier 5. Even then, you will not find satisfaction unless you are using the most broken ship in legend: the corvette, while this ship was a fun gimmick, glass cannon in recruit and veteran rank. It was turned into an unstoppable power house in legend. And if you're not using it, you're losing to it. Your only hope of salvation is to have your allies help you shoot it down, even then your odds of survival are slim. This rank in unbalanced to the extreme.
This game ends for me at Veteran rank. I have the most fun there, balanced and not difficult to rank up your ships. You will enjoy this game if you stay there.

It's a really fun game, love the concept. NOT ENOUGH PLAYERS.

Pro's:
-This is a really fun, action packed and good game.
-Graphics are amazing
-Diverse gameplay and specific roles that can be tweaked into your liking
-Gameplay is pretty straight forward and even though there are only 5 tiers of ships divided into 5 Classes, there are TONS of upgrades and possibilities to customize.
-Lot's of gamemodes that keeps it all fresh
Con's
-A small player base. EU primetime it can take up to 4-10 min to get into a game.
-AND MOST IMPORTANTLY: Hangar interface is absolutely horrible. Cluttered, oversized text and icons, pushy microtransactions in lower right corner and a menu system that you'll never get used to.
If they could scale it all down and make the menues less intrusive I'm sure it could be a quick fix. I would personally rather look at my awesome Dreadnought than some poorly designed interface that takes up all of the screen.
Conclusion:
I have played this game more than the 4 hours it says here, back in the days before they went on Steam.
It's great fun to be back and I know I'll be playing a couple of days over the summer.
The game is free to play but if they can't pull more players into the game I don't think I'll throw any money after gametime. But still great fun.
And for the love of GOD! Fix that hangar interface...

A fun game for the price of free.
Pros:
- Free
- Ships designs range from cool to strange
- Weapon effects look nice
- If there aren't a lot of players available for matchmaking, the game fills in with AI bots.
- All your ships in the fleet level up, albeit slowly, but they do level up even if you don't play them.
- Contracts pay out a good amount of credits.
- Just playing the game will get you to mid tier ships fairly quickly.
- Ship module/weapon customization gets better as progress up the tiers
- Those who can't, or won't, purchase the elite status (premium), may get lucky and matchmake with a player who does. If you do, you get a small percentage of the boost (10%) just from being on their team.
- All tier 1 - 5 ships can be unlocked without paying a penny to developer.
Cons:
- Small community results in seeing the same players in your games on any given day.
- AI bots can be pretty bad.
- You can get stuck on a team of AI bots, while the rest of the enemy team is full, or nearly full, of other human players.
- Some matches can result in ugly bot/curb stomps with you on the receiving end.
- The grind/time investment gets exponentially worse/higher as you progress from into mid and higher tier ships.
- Since you have to unlock the major of upgrades on a ship to unlock the next tier ship equivalent (unlocking 15 out 19 upgrades on a tier 3 healing ship will unlock the tier 4 for purchase), the time investment becomes VERY real.
- Elite status becomes heavily preferred as you progress into tier 3 and higher as rate at which you will gain credits and XP increased dramatically.
- Steam "DLC" premium bundles a bit expensive at full price.
Undecided:
- Hero ships may be purchased. These allow you entry into higher tier matches, and increase the XP gain for the other ships in your fleet you may not play.
VERDICT:
Try before you invest money. If you enjoy the game and spend a lot of time in it beyond fulfilling daily contracts, consider elite status. It will support the developer and you will progress faster. Come for the free pew pew and lasers, stay for the free pew pew and lasers.

Me big ship
Me shoot
Me kill other big ship